The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-20
REPUBLICAN CoRRUPTIoNS OF
ELECTIONS,

ELECTIONS.
II is always the right thing to do to call
the attention OF the people to the fact tina t
the Republican party, as a general propo-
| sition, has won elections by methods aud
processes hagrantly and VIGOROUSLY crimi-
nal and corrupt to a degree that dshes
| Proper Characterization.
The managers of the Republican party
has included many of the most pronounced
scoundrels known to the criminal rec
ords of the country.
These managers, regardless of all law,
human or divine, to carry out their ne
farious purposes. have sought and have
found among the most debased wretches
agents to do their biddi ng whether 1t was
to commit perjury or forger y, stuff ballot
boxes steal or mutilate tally sheets, vote
double tickets or to commit any other out.
rage known to the calendar of crime.
1t is part OF the crime.stained record
of the Republican party that the beetle
browed scamps it employed to corrupt cleo
tions were rewarded by appointments to
Federal positions, and fed for years from
the Federal treasury.
Around these villains the Government,
under Republican control, placed the shield
of its approval and protection, and, in
nnmberless instances, the Republican
press, which bowls for conviction when a
Democrat is indicted, was the defender OF
Republican criminals charged in the such
fsgitions election frauds. as madeline .coun-
try at home and abroad kissing and by
word.
share of these Republican crimes and
criminals. The records from 1868 are black
with Republican rascalities, perpetrated in
the interest of Republican candidates, and
the city of indianapolis and Marion
County have been the center where Re-
publican law breakers have time and
again got in their corrupting work, aud in
every instance the Republican press has
defended the rascaIs. Who does not re-
member the transactions of Dorsey and
his gang, when every conceivable crime
was perpetrated to corrupt the election
and steal the vote of the Slater Who has
forgotten the outrages perpstrated which
cost Stanton ]. Peelle his seat in Congress-
In 1876 the records of the Clerks Office
will show that thirty seven prominent Re.
publicans were indicted for perpetrating
election frauds, and that every case was
nollied by Republican prosecutor; aud it
is equally notorious that Dan Lsmon was
elected sheriff of Marion County in 1880,
and counted out by the Republican "slick
six''
Such facts should be brought to the at
tention of the public now because the same
Republican scoundrels who psrpstrsted
those crimes are now yaWping themselves
hoarse as reformers and seeking to inau-
ence public opinion, that Democrats in
dicted for committing election frauds, or
for conspiring to commit such frauds, may
be convicted, innocent or guilty.
The Evening News is conspicuous in its
efforts in that direction. 1t Stops over in
its adulation of Harlan, an appointee of
r. B. Hayes, and assaults the integrity and
ability OF Judge Gresham, notwithstand-
ing Harlan says the case which Judge
Gresham decided was totally unlike that
which he decided. Judge Gresham believes
that there are boundaries to Federal court
Jurisdiction. Justice Harlan does not
seem to be troubled in that direction-and
the News, that it may inhame the public
mind against the men who are to be tried
before Judge Woods, aims deadly blow at
State courts, juries aud officials. The News
and the Journal discard all proprieties;
and though silent when a Republican
scoundrel commits an election crime. bowls
like dervishes when a Democrat is
overtaken by an indictment. The
public demands a fair trial, any attempt to
pie Judge the case to create partisan pre-
JUDGE, and inlame the public mind, is an
attempt to convict without a hearing. or
to secure verdict by popular clamor.
Those who are guilty of such partisan vim
dictiveness, are seeking to corrupt tae
court, are seeking to debauch Justice and
are enemies of society. They are pursuing
course which degrades justice and
MODS; their professions of fealty to
law are to the last degree hypocritlcal;
and their silence on some occasions when it
| would be proper to speak out their vio-
lence on other occasions when any con-
sideration of a proper administration of
the law demands silence, is proof positive
! that they are animated by malign par
tisan spirit, an disgraceful as it is infa-
nous.